Your turn: Letters to the editor

Your anti-union diatribe (“Labor vs. itself,” Dec. 14) prompts me to point out that before there were unions there was no limit on the length of the workday, no overtime pay, no paid vacation, no workplace safety, no child-labor restrictions, and no benefits. The payscale started at the desperation level and ended there. When unions disappear, it will be back to the “good old days” — unless by then the last American jobs have been moved overseas to “business friendly climates” like sweatshop China, etc. Then, I guess, we’ll no longer have to concern ourselves with matters like benefits and a living wage.